Nvidia GTC Special | GM collaboration | Nodar and Leopard stereo vision | Ansys and Volvo aero | Magna intelligence | Torc autonomous trucks

Volume 5 Issue 10

Special: Nvidia GTC Highlights

Nvidia’s GTC headlined by expanded GM collaboration and Halos AV safety system

At its GTC global AI conference last week, the biggest news from the AI powerhouse was an expanded partnership with General Motors, but the company also unveiled the Halos safety system offering for AVs, its expanding automotive ecosystem, and new AI Enterprise software platform offerings.

Nodar and Leopard Imaging advance 3D stereo vision

Announced at Nvidia GTC 2025, the collaboration integrates Nodar’s Hammerhead software with Leopard Imaging’s GMSL2 cameras and Nvidia Drive AGX Orin compute to provide enhanced depth perception and point cloud generation at ranges significantly exceeding current market solutions.

Ansys and Nvidia help accelerate Volvo Cars EX90 aero simulations

At Nvidia’s GTC, Ansys announced that its Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation software leverages just eight Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to accelerate solver speed by 2.5 times versus the same simulation run on 2016 CPU cores and cost-equivalent hardware to improve Volvo’s EX90 aerodynamic performance.

Magna to integrate Nvidia Drive Thor for next-generation vehicle intelligence

The collaboration announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference aims to deliver an accelerated compute platform to enable scalable interior cabin AI solutions and advanced active safety functionality for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving systems to enable software-defined vehicles.

Torc announces Flex physical AI platform accelerated by Nvidia for its autonomous trucks

At Nvidia’s GTC 2025, the autonomous truck technology company showcased its production-intent hardware, software, and AD kit on Daimler’s Freightliner Cascadia, the platform leveraging Nvidia Drive AGX and Flex Jupiter compute platform to support scaled market entry in 2027.